* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 2004 – Sacramento – 10. 25. 03 ( Official Bootleg series )

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

* 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

* 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U. S. President Gerald Ford.

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

In 1669 – 71 the Portuguese built a fort at Colonia del Sacramento.

* April 24 – A Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California.

* January 28 – Richard Chase, the " Vampire of Sacramento ", is arrested.

* October 24 – Lambda Sigma Gamma Sorority Inc. was founded at Sacramento State by Linda V. Fuentes and 26 Founding Mothers.

* April 3 – The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.

After the river's flow was under control, two major canals serving the western side of the Sacramento Valley – the Tehama-Colusa and Corning Canals.

Others failed to take root – one of the most notorious, the Klamath Diversion, proposed to send the entire flow of the Klamath River into the Sacramento Valley through a complex system of reservoirs, canals, flumes and tunnels.

The Sacramento supports 40 – 60 species of fish, and 218 types of birds.

* Sacramento River Flooding – Online Video from KVIE Public Television

* Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta

In 1860 – 1861 the Pony Express, employing riders traveling on horseback day and night with relay stations about every ten miles to supply fresh horses, was established from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California.

It is part of the Sacramento – Arden-Arcade – Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

After Monterey, the state capital was variously San Jose ( 1850 – 1851 ), Vallejo ( 1852 – 1853 ) and Benicia ( 1853 – 1854 ) until Sacramento was finally selected in 1854.

An even smaller number of Constant Molokans fled Russia and settled mainly in the San Francisco, California and Sacramento, California areas.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.

In the 1860s and continuing into the early 20th century, miners dumped staggering quantities of mud and gravel from hydraulic mining operations into the upper Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.

In the last years of the nineteenth-and first decades of the twentieth-centuries, at the behest of local political officials and following Congressional orders, the US Army Corps began dredging the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the deep channels of San Francisco Bay.

Several layers of suburban municipalities now surround cities like Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Houston, San Francisco, Sacramento, Atlanta, Miami, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.

* California, whose supreme court is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains only branch offices in the state capital, Sacramento, and the state's largest city, Los Angeles.

Failing to raise funds for the project in San Francisco, he succeeded in signing up four Sacramento merchants — the " Big Four ": Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.

Further transactions added San Francisco ( KPIX-TV and KBHK ), which was traded to Viacom / CBS by Fox, and Sacramento ( KOVR and KMAX-TV ) to the mix.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

In November 1869 the Central Pacific finally connected Sacramento to San Francisco Bay at Oakland, California.

Amtrak's California Zephyr, a daily passenger service from Emeryville, California ( San Francisco Bay Area ) to Chicago, uses the First Transcontinental Railroad from Sacramento to central Nevada.

The Central Valley was becoming a heavily developed irrigation farming region, and cities along the state's Pacific coast and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers were growing rapidly, requiring ways to manage the river's water to prevent flooding ( and resulting economic loss ) on one hand, and to ensure a consistent supply of it on the other.

Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.

The Sacramento and San Joaquin also have the southermost runs of five species of anadromous fish.

Mail was then sent via steamer down the Sacramento River to San Francisco.

Original Catalan-Gothic parts can be seen over the high altar, the presbytery chapels and the San Sacramento Chapel.

It was received favorably and testing expanded to Arizona, San Diego and Sacramento.

The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area ( which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose ), and Sacramento ( the state capital ) as well as its metropolitan area.

The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley, after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley (), after its main river.

The whole Central Valley is watered by mountain-fed rivers ( notably the San Joaquin, Kings, and Sacramento ) that drain to the San Francisco Bay system.

There are only a small number of tectonically produced estuaries ; one example is the San Francisco Bay, which was formed by the crustal movements of the San Andreas fault system causing the inundation of the lower reaches of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.

Its northern half is referred to as the Sacramento Valley, and its southern half as the San Joaquin Valley.

The Sacramento valley receives about 20 inches of rain annually, but the San Joaquin is very dry, often semi-arid desert in many places.

The two halves meet at the huge Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which along with their tributaries drain the majority of the valley.

The valley is a vast agricultural region drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.

Mid-autumn to mid-spring comprises the rainy season — although during the late summer, southeasterly winds aloft can bring thunderstorms of tropical origin, mainly in the southern half of the San Joaquin Valley but occasionally to the Sacramento Valley.

The city is bordered entirely by unincorporated areas of both Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties.

During the last Ice Age, when sea level was several hundred feet lower, the waters of the glacier-fed Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River scoured a deep channel through the bedrock on their way to the ocean.

For example, the Central Valley is a distinct region in itself both culturally and topographically from coastal California, though in Northern versus Southern California divisions, the Sacramento Valley and most of the San Joaquin Valley are usually placed in Northern California.

The Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers from the Sierra Nevada pass through the Central Valley and California Coast Ranges to San Francisco Bay.

* Central Valley of California both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys have majority Mexican American communities.

The term Coast Range is used by the United States Geological Survey to refer only to the ranges south from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington to the California-Mexico border ; and only the ranges west of Puget Sound, the Willamette valley, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys or ' California Central Valley ' ( thereby excluding the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges ), and the Mojave ( High ) and Sonoran ( Low ) Deserts.

In California: the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers ' San Francisco Bay, the Santa Clara River's Oxnard Plain ( home to some of the most fertile soil in the world ), the Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and Santa Ana Rivers ' Los Angeles Basin-a coastal sediment-filled plain between the peninsular and transverse ranges with sediment in the basin up to 6 miles ( 10 km ) deep, and the San Diego River's Mission Bay.

The Mossdale Bridge, which was the final section across the San Joaquin River near Lathrop, California, was finally completed in September 1869 connecting Sacramento in California.